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Swamp Head New Brewery Grand Opening

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Swamp Head built a New Brewery! Come celebrate with them on Saturday, February 21st. Here are the details, straight from Swamp Head:

***DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES OUT OF OUR CONTROL, WE ARE STILL NOT ALLOWED TO LET ANYONE DRINK BEER OUTSIDE. IT MAY GET PRETTY CROWDED INSIDE DURING THE GRAND OPENING, AND FROM TIME TO TIME WE MAY HAVE TO HOLD PEOPLE OUTSIDE DUE TO CAPACITY RESTRICTIONS. WE HOPE THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN, BUT WANT YOU ALL TO BE IN THE LOOP. SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR ANY “WAITING PATIENTLY” THAT YOU HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN ON SATURDAY*** NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT BEHIND US…

Cut ribbon, drink beer.

Many of you have been seen around our new tasting room for the few weeks of soft openings, but how many of you will be here when we make it official?!

We’re hosting a Grand Opening Celebration this Saturday from 1pm to 9pm, complete with a ribbon cutting, a tree planting, brewery tours, food trucks, and, you guessed it… BEER.

Here is the general schedule for the event.  See you Saturday!

Event Schedule:

12:45pm – Ribbon Cutting
1:45pm – Tree Planting
2:30pm – Tours Start
ALL DAY: Our tasting room will be open for normal hours of hoperation. Hang out, drink beer, smile.

Food Trucks

Humble Pie Wood Fired Pizza
Off the Griddle

Important Beer Information

Timed Tappings: Info coming soon

Bottle Releases: Info coming soon

Recent Releases You’ll Find:

Chocolate Orange Udderly Calm – Draft Only
Batch 800 (Peanut Butter & Jelly Ale) – Draft Only
20yr Pappy Barrel Aged 10-10-10 – Draft and Bottle (If the bottles haven’t sold out)

Tour Schedule
The grand opening will be the first time we embark on brewery tours at our new brewery. We will host 5 tours throughout the day, and you can register at The Wetlands for a tour. We will not charge for tours at the Grand Opening Celebration, and therefore will not be giving out beers or brewery tour pint glasses. Be ready with a beer in hand at time of tour if you would like to sip on one while you check out the new digs.

2:30pm
3:15pm
4:00pm
4:45pm
5:15pm

Please email info@swamphead.com with any questions you may have about this event. Cheers!

Five Facts About Craft Beer Northeast Florida

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By: PATRICK DONGES of WJCT News

With news that a national craft brewing organization chose Jacksonville for it’s next annual convention, we’ve compiled this list of five little known facts about the region’s burgeoning craft beer scene.

1. Jacksonville’s Intuition Ale Works was the first craft brewery in the state to can its beer

Credit Intuition Ale Works
“They beat out Tampa Brewing Company by a few days and Cigar City by a few weeks,” said Gerard Walen, author of Florida Breweries and Florida beer blogger.

This means Intuition was also the first craft brewery in Florida to use the recycled plastic packaging that is becoming popular with craft brewers across the country.

2. Jacksonville master brewers produce 15,000 barrels of beer per year

That’s according to an estimate from city tourism agency Visit Jacksonville, which is currently working with local breweries to launch a self-guided “Jax Ale Trail” tour to help promote craft beer in the city.

Each barrel is equal to 31 gallons, which means Jacksonville’s craft breweries put out about 465,000 gallons of beer per year. That’s enough beer to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool and still have 5,000 gallons to spare.

3. Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery will pour your first flight for free

That’s right — Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery will let you sample anything they have on tap totally on the house if it is your first time there. For the uninitiated, a flight is a selection of sample pours, usually between 3 and 5 ounces and presented in order of increasing flavor.

Gerard Walen says the bold move comes from Bold City’s philosophy that the taproom should be both a sales generator and a marketing tool, and that it’s the only brewery in the state he knows of offering a free flight.

FOR FULL ARTICLE: http://news.wjct.org/post/five-facts-about-craft-beer-northeast-florida

Swamp Head Brewery Breaks Ground on New Brewery

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Gainesville, FL • July 11th, 2014 — Swamp Head has broken ground on their new 13,000 sq. ft. facility that will be located at 3650 SW 42nd Ave, Gainesville, FL. Scherer Construction of Gainesville is managing the ground up design/build project.

The new brewery and tasting room will feature an increased production area and an expansion of the brewery’s tasting room, “The Wetlands.”

With the expansion, Swamp Head will be able to more than triple its beer production, allowing for more packaged product, including cans. A new four-vessel 30-barrel (930 gallons) brew system and all associated tanks are currently being constructed in Oregon and will be installed at the new location. The new equipment will triple the size of each of Swamp Head’s brews on their current two-vessel 10-barrel (310 gallon) brew system. All of Swamp Head’s tanks and brew system will be sourced in the U.S.A.

The new tasting room, “The Wetlands,” will grow in size and have significant improvements from the current location, featuring a larger bar, more taps, more bathrooms, outside seating and a growler filling station separate from the main bar.

Swamp Head will continue operation at its current location at 3140 SW 42nd Way until the new facility is complete; announcements will be made when the new location is open for business.

Earlier this year, Swamp Head was awarded a gold at the World Beer Cup in the Smoke Beer style category for Smoke Signal, a robust smoked porter that uses alder wood smoked malt to obtain a soft, smoky flavor. The World Beer Cup is considered “The Olympics of Beer” and is a global beer competition that evaluates beers from around the world and recognizes the most outstanding brewers and their beers.

Swamp Head Brewery was founded in 2008 in Gainesville, FL and has been striving to follow their mission of brewing world-class beer and establishing themselves as Florida’s Brewery. In 2009, Swamp Head started selling Wild Night Honey Cream Ale, Cottonmouth Belgian Witbier, Stump Knocker Pale Ale, Midnight Oil Oatmeal Coffee Stout and Big Nose IPA. These five beers remain as their year round portfolio today.

Please direct any questions or media inquiries to Brandon Nappy at Brandon@swamphead.com.